Envisioning a future towards sustainability requires systems thinking. Taking lessons from the past and applying them to plans to future sustainability plans is an effective start, but this transition will be an iterative process entailing reorganization, restructuring, and replanning.
Thus, any “plan towards a sustainable future” must be analyzed using multiple levels of analysis at multiple scales as these plans are likely to change and work differently across distinct scales, cultures, and regions. It is therefore important to avoid the notion of panaceas or cure-all solutions.
However, basic changes of values and actions across multiple scales in different segments of governance and business must be altered in order to achieve a sustainable, resilient society. A concept map detailing what a sustainable future should look like and how we might get there is detailed in the How Can We Get to a Sustainable Future? section which can be accessed in the menu or via the following link:
In order to achieve this future, important actors must play a significant role in motivating individuals and communities towards activism and effectively advocating on behalf of sustainable policies.
One exemplary nonprofit actor is Protect Our Winters (POW). It it crucial that other actors adopt similar strategies as POW in order to effectively push towards successful change. A concept map detailing the effectiveness of POW’s organization and actions is detailed in the Protect Our Winters section which can be accessed in the menu or via the following link: